Sentence examples for an effort to attach from inspiring English sources

In November, an effort to attach the Senate version to an appropriations bill lost by a 54-to-45 54-to-45 54-to-45

Lighthizer is especially skating on thin ice by calling this a "certified" figure, which appears to be an effort to attach some authoritative weight to it.

This campaign, which was created by Mullen in Boston, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, was an effort to attach some emotional power to reading and to the Barnes & Noble brand.

Their most viable path seemed to be an effort to attach revisions to the health care bill to a budget reconciliation measure, which the Senate could adopt by a simple majority.

His current challenge--the biggest yet, he says--is an effort to attach some cachet to the wines coming out of a small California winery in Petaluma that he recently bought when it encountered financial problems.

The wide carbon price range suggested in these two proposals hints at the biggest challenge to any effort to attach a value to carbon emissions, and that's getting the carbon price right.

These provisions are generally referred to as Blaine amendments, after the sponsor of a failed effort to attach such an amendment to the federal Constitution in 1875.

The vote also echoes a similar experience in the House, where Republican lawmakers killed a similar effort to attach election security funds to an appropriations bill last month, on a party-line vote.

It is a timely effort to attach real numbers to an increasingly politicized debate over energy subsidies.

On the Palestinian side, the complaint that Netanyahu's effort to attach new conditions to a deal he had already signed up for is legitimate – reneging on a confidence-building measure so early in the game has undermined the trust required for negotiation.

UPDATE: 12/3 -- According to Bloomberg BNA, McConnell has withdrawn his effort to attach the rider to the omnibus bill after Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev).